Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

A comparison of the genes and genesets identified by GWAS and EWAS of fifteen complex traits

  • Thomas Battram,
  • Tom R. Gaunt,
  • Caroline L. Relton,
  • Nicholas J. Timpson,
  • Gibran Hemani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35037-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Genome-wide and epigenome-wide association studies both link genomic regions to human traits, but here the authors demonstrate that these study types are capturing different genes and biological aspects of complex traits.